About Barbara Kingsolver:
Barbara Kingsolver has always been a storyteller: "I used to beg my mother to let me tell her a bedtime story." As a child, she wrote stories and essays and, beginning at the age of eight, kept a journal religiously. Still, it never occurred to Kingsolver that she could become a professional writer. Growing up in a rural place, where work centered mainly on survival, writing didn't seem to be a practical career choice.
Besides, the writers she read, she once explained, "were mostly old, dead men from England. It was inconceivable that I might grow up to be one of those myself..."
Dates:
(1955-)
Nationality:
American
Genre(s):
Novels; Stories; Essays; Poetry
Notable Work:
The Poisonwood Bible, 1998
